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All of this has been true ever since people started building large numbers of datacenters back in the 90s, but nobody organized protests about it until "datacen

All of this has been true ever since people started building large numbers of datacenters back in the 90s, but nobody organized protests about it until "datacenters" became a local proxy for "AI".

watwut 2mo ago
There was no comparable push to build as many datacenters as quickly and with zero regard to anything else.
- dlcarrier 2mo ago
  There was during the dot com bubble in 2000 and 2001, especially in California, where there also happened to be a power shortage and rolling blackouts.